While there's a certain "what goes around, comes around"ness to all of this, whoever is leaking this stuff has clearly crossed the line. It's one thing to be openly critical of Martin and his regime as a lot of the former Chretien crowd have been. But when you have a job in the war room to help the Liberals win the election, it's just petty and nasty to be sabotaging your own team. Like betting on baseball, this is the sort of thing that just shouldn't be done, no matter how bitter this person(s) is to Martin and his gang.

Hopefully they'll figure out who's behind this so that we don't have to worry about this person working on future election campaigns (ditto for Herle, Reid, and Duffy).

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It wasn't a mole. Versions of the platform were left unprotected on the Liberal internet server and were available to anyone interesting in looking. I don't have the link anymore (its floating around the blogsphere) but I think it still there.

Considering that today is January 11th, there really hasn't been much the Liberals have been doing in this campaign that's policy-based, and the party is in a free-fall, why did it take a "leak" to get the Red Book out there? Why wasn't it out there two weeks after the campaign started, or right after the Christmas break? There are less than two weeks left in this campaign, and if the Red Book didn't get leaked, you really have to wonder when they were planning on releasing it. Of course, this also gives credence to the view that the Liberals didn't even have the "goddamned thing" drafted until the past few days.

The day was one of the best in the campaign. Could there have been anything funnier than the socialcredervatives and their champion, Jason 'the weenie', to hold forth at a news conference on the subject of negative ads in Canada. Haven't heard from the lad since the China Syndrome but his high school debating style and puffer fish demeanor are always and entertaining diversion. How about Monte 'the python' Solberg on 'the leak'? Here's a guy that takes meaninglessness serious. Everyone turns from their TV to ask, "yeh. and what?"